Cigarette-container.



M. WOLF. CIGARETIE CONTAINER. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 19. I914.

Putntedbept. 21, 1915.

W/ TNEGSES:

MEYER WOLF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGARETTE-CONTAINER.

'1'! all whom it may 00 earn lie it known that i MEYER WOLF, a citizen of the United iltates, residing at,New York city, county of ji ew York, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigarette( ontainers,0f which the following is a. full, clear, and exact description,reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to PIOYgdO a box for cigarettes which, when opened, will present the cigarettes in such position that they may be readily removed.

More specifically the ob iect is to provide a construction which is so simple and cheap that the same may be embodied in the original pasteboard box in which the cigarettes are sold by the retailer to the consumer, avoiding any occasion for carrying a permanent and expensive cigarette case.

A preferred embodiment of the nvention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigarette box embodying my invention, shown in open condition. Fig. 2 is a plan view of same and Fig. 3 is a, section on line 33 of Fig. 2.

The box, composed of the body a and'ilid I), need not differ in construction'from that of an ordinary cigarette box. The lid. is hinged at one end to the" box body. Tnstead of placing the cigarettes loosely in the box, as usual, a special receptacle c is provided for the cigarettes, the same comprising an open-ended receiver of a height apmidway between, the sides of the receiver,-

thereby dividing the same into two compartments. The partition 03 is preferably substantially longer than the receiver 0 and may be nearly the length of the box a 7). The partition may be secured in fixed relation to the receiver 0 by, any convenient means, as, for instance, by making it originally of larger dimensions than the box and notching the edges thereof to form flanges c which may be bent over and secured to the bottom and ends of the receiver.

The receiver (2 is placed in the body a of the box. it may be pi'votally attached to the Specification of Letters Patent.

hinged end of the box, as shown, or not, as

desired. A short flexible connection f, which may be a piece of tape, is secured at opposite ends to the bottom of the box body a and to one side of the receiver 0, and another similar flexible connection connects the other side of the receiver 0 and the lid of the box. The cigarettes are slipped lengthwise. into the receiver I. on opposite sides of the partition (I. The lid of the box is then closed.

It will be readily understood that. in opcning the box, the lid 7) will swing on its hinge until its further movement is restrained by tlltnlO IlllttftlOflS f, g. This movement causes the receiver 0 to occupy a position angular to both the box body a and lid '1 and midway between both, thus bringing the cigarettes into an exposed position permitting their ready removal.

it will be obvious that the construction isbox and placed therein with its closed (and adjacent to the hinged end of the box, means connecting the receiver with the box lid and box body and limiting the outward movement of the body and lid when the same have opened into an angular relationship, and a partition within the. receiver midway between and parallel to the sides thereof and of a length substantially greater than that of thereceiver-and approximating that of the body and lid and extending from the bottonrof the receiver to a'point substantially beyond the open end thereof and affording a support for two parallel rows of cigarettes.

2. A fgarette container comprising a box body. a lid hinged thereto, a cigarette receiver of substantially less length than the box and placed therein with its-closed end adjacent to the hinged end of the. box, means I Patented Sept. 21, 1915. Application tiled November 19, 1914. Serial No. 872,898.

connecting zthe receiver with the box lid and and secured to the adjacent inside walls of 10 box body and limiting the outward move the'receiver.

ment of the body and lid when the same In cesbimony pi which invention, I have have opened into an annular relationship hereuntmseig my hand, at Philadelphia, on and :1. partition within the receiver midway this 9th day of November, 1914.

between and pzu allel to the sides thereof, n :MEYER WVOLF. the edges of the partition being notched at WVitnesses: intervals to form two' sets of flanges which. M. M. IIAHTLTDN are bent respectively" in opposite directions E. WALL. 

